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...Reiss’ ‘Borscht Belt’ humor. The feelings of appreciation were mutual. “I want to thank you all for being so smart,” Reiss said. While at Harvard, Reiss was co-president of the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine—along with fellow Simpsons writer Jonathan M. Vitti ’81. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
Privileged Harvard students have long been able to login to JSTOR free of charge and usually in a semi-comatose state. Now, however, anyone with Internet access can pretend to be an Extension School student and read up on a professor’s lifelong passion for amoebas—and for free. (Disclaimer: this is under the assumption that they’d want to, of course...
...used to be that the only hacks Harvard students had to worry about were the less-than-humorous antics from their peers at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...story of Imre Kertész is so remarkable that, at times, it threatens to overshadow any story he could invent. Deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14, he survived both the Holocaust and the Hungarian Stalinist regime to become a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novel “Fatelessness” about his experiences in the concentration camps only to have it refused, in 1975, by one of two publishing houses in Hungary on the grounds that it was “anti-Semitic.” When he won the Nobel Prize...
Apparently, lead singer Sam Endicott of semi-new, semi-“it” band The Bravery has lost the will to breathe—but not the will to make shitty music videos. In the band’s single, “Believe,” Endicott pleads for “something more to keep me breathing for.” The lyrics (despite the bad grammar) recall an Elliot Smith song, filled with dark and brooding imagery; but the video for “Believe” wastes its existential potential on cheap cliches. What...